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E. W. KELLER.

v EMBROIDERY MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED uov.*29, ma.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919;

V INVENIOR A TTORNEY EUGENE W. KELLER, OF NORTH BERGEN, NEXV JERSEY.

EMBROIDERY-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Application filed November 29, 1918. Serial No. 264,603.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LEUoENn IV. KELLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of North Bergen, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Embroidery-Machines, of which the folhiwing is a s JecificatiOn.

This invention relates to embroidery machines and my improvement refers particularly to mechanical means whereby overiaid threads as of metal, wool, chenille, ribbon, lace, cording or the like may be incorporated in an embroidery design in the form of appliqu Work.

Usually appliqu strands have been applied to ei'nbroidery by hand means, consuinin'g considerable time, and occupying an undue share of attention from the operator.

Therefore my improvement is devised for the purpose of providing mechanical means for feeding applique strands across the ma chine, in convenient position for engagement by the needle threads upon the surface of the goods being embroidered.

To this end I provide a number of frames, carryin spools having wound thereon the applique thread, said frames being slidably mounted on guide rods, nd having flexible connectors that are passed around pulleys located at opposite sides of the machine frame.

Means are also provided for moving said flexible connectors, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, whereby an appliqu strand, Whose outer end is secured at one side of the machine frame, may be drawn in a straight line across the goods undergoing embroidering in the operation of the spool frame.

Other features and advantages of my said invention will hereinafter appear.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of an embroidery machine provided with my improvement, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail viewof the spool, with its frame and operable means.

In the drawing an embroidery machine is represented at 11, designating opposite side. upright members of the frame, and 2 indicates goods carried by the machine to be embroidered therein.

No needle bars or other elements of an ordinary embroidery machine are here shown, their character and arrangement being Well known to those skilled in the art, and be cause the present invention is confined to the means for presenting appliqu strands operatively to the goods.

Horizontally extended across the machine frame are rods or wires 3-3 which are secured at their opposite ends to the frame members 1-1, as at 4, said rods or wires serving as guides for spool frames 5, that are mounted thereon to be slidable across the front of the goods. The frames are shown as each comprising a rectangle composed of the horizontal upper and lower bars 6, and vertical end bars 7 the latter having threaded hubs 8 to receive, respectively, alined set screws 9, that, at their inner ends are entered within the axial aperture through a spool 10, to revolubly support said spool in the frame. The frames 5 are each provided, at opposite ends, with lugs 11-11, to which are engaged ends of a flexible connector, as a wire 12, the opposite end portions of the connector being passed around a series of four pulleys 13 which are located, two each upon the side members 1 of the machine frame, in quadrangular arrangement, whereby the connector 12 is extended in two parallel lines across the face of the goods, and includes a spool frame in each line. The location of the frames 5 in the said arrangement is such that when one frame is at one end of its line, the other frame is at the opposite end of its line. Consequently, in the movement of the connector about its pulleys the respective frames 5 will move in opposite directions across the face of the goods. Movement may be imparted to the connector 12 by means of a pulley wheel 14, located at one side of the machine frame, and wrapped with a double turn of said connector, said wheel 14: having an operating handle 15.

The spools 10 carry threads or strands 16 of material to form appliqu Work, one end of the material from each spool being made fast to a side portion of the machine frame, as at 17. Then in the travel of a frame 5 carrying a spool across the face of the goods, a length of its strand 16 Will be laid in position, to be engaged by the needle threads with the goods in the usual manner of performing applique work.

Following this operation, as the goods move upwardly a desired extent in the functioning of the embroidery machine, and a new position for an applique strand is presented upon the goods, the connector 12 may be given a reverse movement which will have the efiect' of releasing from the spool a further length of strand, laid ina linepar allel'to and below the former line. The

operation is repeated in reverse succession.

as often as needed. It will be noted that by means of the oppositely located frames. 5,.

movable in difl'erent, parallel lines, two strands of applique material are'laid with eachrfull operation of the connector in one direction. 1 V a The strand 16 leaving a spool-is carried through an orifice 1.8 in the lower frame bar 6, which servesas a feed guide therefor.

Variations may be resorted to within the spirit and scope of my said invention and parts thereof used without others.

said spool frame alongsaidguide, whereby an unstitched strand may be laid from the spool across the goods for the fullwidtlr ofthe work, prior to theapplication of embroidery thereto along the line of said strand. 1 7

- 8. In an embroidery machine, in combination, a machine. frame, parallel guides eX- tended across said frame over'the front-0f 'tion, a machine frame, a guide extended 7 across the frame over the front of the goods therein, a spool carrying frame slidable upon said guide, a spool revoluble upon said spool frame, a flexible connector engaging said spool frame, pulleys supporting said connector, and means for actuating said connector'to move said spool frame along said guide and thus to lay a strand from the spool in unstitched relation across the goods for the full width of the work, prior to the application of embroidery thereto along the line of said. strand. 7 r

5. In an embroidery machine, in combination, a frame, parallel guides extended across said frame over the front of the goods therein, a spool marrying frame slidable upon each guide, a flexible connector engaging said spool frames, pulleys supporting said connector in rectangular arrangement, and a pulley wheel to actuate said connec; tor, thereby moving the spool frames oppositely and enabling the spools'to lay respective strands across the goods. 7

Signed at borough of Manhattan in the city, county and. State of New York this 25th day of November A. D. 1918. 7

' EUGENE N. KELLER.

Witnesses: Y

F. .W. BARKER, EDYTHE C. BARKER. 

